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I got up a little before 6:00 am and headed over to the Effie Yeaw Nature Preserve for my regular Tuesday trail-walking gig. It was cool and rain threatened, but it didn’t actually start raining until I got back into the car to head home, so that was nice. I was joined on the walk by Mary Messenger (The Other Mary), and we took the trails in a counterclockwise fashion just to mix things up a little bit. I was hoping to see the young coyote again, but I didn’t. Later, Rachel (the volunteer coordinator) told us that she’d spotted it in the company of a larger coyote in the big field right before the turn off to the nature center. She suspected it was too-lean female, but I think it’s a juvenile. Hard to tell, though, unless we can get a really good look at it.

I did get to see couple of slime molds, which was cool, and also got to watch House Wrens doing their daily chores: bringing twigs and feathers to line their nesting cavity; bringing breakfast to the kids; and taking out the trash (taking the babies’ fecal sacs out of the nest). We also got photos of a cooperative Desert Cottontail rabbit who was eating clover along the edge of the trail. So cute.

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